How to Prepare Yummy Stained Glass Cookies

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Stained Glass Cookies. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and molasses until smooth. Stir together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices. Gradually add flour mixture to creamed mixture; blend well.

Stained Glass Cookies Stained Glass Cookies are sure to impress people of all ages! These crisp buttery cookies are cut into festive shapes and filled with hard candies, then they're baked and the candy melts into an even layer for a beautiful stained glass effect. Beat in the molasses and vanilla extract. You can have Stained Glass Cookies using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Stained Glass Cookies

  1. It's of Butter or Magirine.
  2. You need of Sugar.
  3. You need of eggs.
  4. You need of Vanilla Essence.
  5. Prepare of Flour.
  6. It's of Cornstarch.
  7. It's of Salt.
  8. Prepare of Crushed hard candies (Like Sparkles).

Mix sugar, shortening, vanilla and eggs in large bowl. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. It was time for our annual neighborhood cookie exchange and I needed a new recipe to try! Knowing that Dorie Greenspan had a recipe for stained glass cookies that my "Dorista" pals were.

Stained Glass Cookies instructions

  1. In a stand mixer cream the butter and sugar together..
  2. Add the eggs at a time while mixing. Also add the vanilla and mix to combine..
  3. Sift the flour, cornstarch and salt. Add the flour and mix on low until just combined..
  4. Roll out the Dought to a 0.5cm. Cut out shapes using a medium to large cookie cutter. Use small cookie cutters to cut a hole in the centre of the cookie. Poke a small hole at the top of the cookie if you want to use them as ornaments..
  5. Place cookies on a silicon sheet (you need this to ensure the candy do not stick to your pan). Add the crushed candy to the inside of the cookies..
  6. Bake the cookies for 12 minutes at 180 then let them cool to allow the candy to harden back up..
  7. You can add a string and hang them on your tree.

These beautiful stained glass cookies are buttery sugar cookies with a candy center. A holiday classic that tastes as good as it looks! If you've never made stained glass window cookies before, this is the year you need to try. Remove sheets from oven; fill cutouts with crushed candy. Prepare an ice bath; set aside.